The Game Census
McDROID cover art

McDROID

Elefantopia · 2014-09-05

Steam

ActionIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Mar 01, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Mar 04, 2016 (Xbox One), Feb 02, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 05, 2014 (Mac), Aug 05, 2014 (Linux)

Farm, Build, Defend, in the Galaxy's only Arcade-Tower-Defense.

74%
positive of 217 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.29
steam price (US)
McDroid is a tower defense video game developed by the French and American independent studio Elefantopia. The game uses cel shaded graphics.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 29% of 26,882 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.4k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 217 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Humble Store (2017-04-15) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 20 of 28 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120142026Week of 2014-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$74.99$0.992015-01-012026-10-082015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-12-22 — best price $9.992016-08-06 — best price $14.992016-12-22 — best price $4.992017-10-23 — best price $2.492018-10-29 — best price $2.492019-11-01 — best price $18.992020-01-23 — best price $9.992020-08-28 — best price $3.792020-12-01 — best price $24.992021-02-15 — best price $24.992021-09-06 — best price $24.992022-01-27 — best price $2.992022-08-19 — best price $2.492022-12-02 — best price $24.992023-03-23 — best price $24.992023-06-19 — best price $24.992023-08-18 — best price $4.992023-10-30 — best price $5.742023-12-18 — best price $24.992024-02-15 — best price $2.992024-07-04 — best price $2.492024-09-16 — best price $24.992024-11-27 — best price $4.992025-01-27 — best price $14.992025-05-25 — best price $7.492025-07-21 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $2.992025-12-04 — best price $24.992026-07-30 — best price $24.992026-09-10 — best price $24.992026-10-08 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1002026-07-15 — 3 pageviews2026-07-18 — 6 pageviews2026-07-21 — 1 pageviews2026-07-24 — 2 pageviews2026-07-27 — 1 pageviews2026-07-30 — 1 pageviews2026-08-02 — 5 pageviews2026-08-05 — 1 pageviews2026-08-08 — 3 pageviews2026-08-11 — 1 pageviews2026-08-14 — 2 pageviews2026-08-17 — 0 pageviews2026-08-20 — 2 pageviews2026-08-23 — 2 pageviews2026-08-26 — 0 pageviews2026-08-29 — 0 pageviews2026-09-01 — 0 pageviews2026-09-04 — 5 pageviews2026-09-07 — 0 pageviews2026-09-10 — 0 pageviews2026-09-13 — 4 pageviews2026-09-16 — 3 pageviews2026-09-19 — 1 pageviews2026-09-22 — 4 pageviews2026-09-25 — 1 pageviews2026-09-28 — 3 pageviews2026-10-01 — 2 pageviews2026-10-04 — 1 pageviews2026-10-07 — 1 pageviews2026-10-10 — 0 pageviews2026-10-11 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
56.7%
earned "A FISTFUL OF STRAWBERRIES"
4.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Dutch

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-10-17 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8581%24
Xbox One (Xbox)4533%18
PS4 (PlayStation)1933%18
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DRTSFunnyIndieActionAliensRobotsShooterCartoonyStrategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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